Quitting a habit

[Kyle_in_Tex]

My mom had the strangest smoking habit. No smoking all day long, but after her bath, she'd get in bed and smoke 2 cigarettes while she watched TV. She always kept the lit cigarette in an ashtray on her bed stand.


Funny story.

I did not smoke. I worked 2nd shift in a mfg plant with a group of pretty wild guys. So we ate lunch mostly together in the break room about 9 - 9:30 pm. One guy always smoked a cigarette after eating (this was in the late '80's), while the rest of the guys would go outside to have a smoke. That left about 4 of us in the breakroom. One night, I cut a loud toot at the table and this guy (a good buddy of mine) came unglued. I thought we were going to have to throw down. I could tell he was used to not having people stand up to him. He told me that was rude. I told him I'd been breathing his 2nd hand smoke for almost 3 years and I still owed him a thousand farts. I told him if he'd smoke outside, I'd fart outside. He eventually calmed down and we went on playing cards for a bit longer.....The boss eventually put up a room divider in the break room so we could separate smokers from non smokers.

 

[CobyRupert]

I believe the best way to cure addiction is by hating it. Hate it with a passion! Anyone who waits until there's a problem it's usually too late.
Of course for many prayer is good also, knowing you're not alone.

In my spiritual explorations, HATE and FEAR are amoung the absolute worst and destructive of human conditions.

What you HATE, you attract. No one should know that better than me!

Not sure IndustrialToys.
I hate poison. I hate to think what would happen if I drank bleach or rat pellets. I don’t find myself attracted to them by doing so.

If I can change my mind to think of other substances (or activities) as poison too, I think that can be beneficial.

...instead of associating them with the enjoyment they once had prior to being an addiction ( and a problem).

 

[k0ua]

p.s. If I could only kick my sugar addiction. Now that stuff is really POISON

Hi my name is James, and I am a sugarholic. I have been clean and sober and off sugar for 7 weeks. Very low carbohydrate intake too in the last 7 weeks. But NO sugar or anything that contains it. It has not been particularly easy. To know I will never be able to eat another glazed donut or a bowl of real ice cream.. well it is pretty darn sad.

Never used tobacco, Very little alchohol, I don't think even a beer in the last 5 years. I don't drink coffee. But I did my share of everything sugar. I tried coffee a couple of times when I was a deputy sheriff. ALL law enforcement drinks coffee. I didn't. I loathe the smell of burning tobacco. I loathe intoxicated people. Chewing tobacco while it doesn't affect me like smoking in my presence seems like a very nasty rude habit.

I never understood the attraction to cigarettes. I tried a few as a youngster. They hurt your lungs, taste awful and really stink. I don't get it. The concept of drawing hot smoke into your lungs by choice just seems crazy to me. I don't do drugs (except sugar) and never did. Nope never ever even once. Not even MJ. I am proud of that. But there is that "danged" sugar. That crap is a drug just as sure as cocaine. i think the addiction is as strong or stronger. Don't believe it? Try quitting it for a couple of months.

 

[k0ua]

The boss eventually put up a room divider in the break room so we could separate smokers from non smokers.

having a smoking section in a room is like having a peeing section in the public pool. And just as effective. One thing I always like about working in Arkansas was no public restuarant allowed smoking by state law. You could go to any one of them and never worry about say "non smoking please". Like a non smoking section helped much.

 

[bunyip]

I HATE tax, I am not addicted but they won't let me stop paying it.

 

[k0ua]

I HATE tax, I am not addicted but they won't let me stop paying it.

Forced addiction!

 

[4570Man]

I beat that addiction for about an hour once.

 

[mjarrels]

I was a fingernail chewer all my life. Got assigned to NAS Cubi Point in the Philippines in the mid 80's and knew that every thing I touched would be filthy. Road the bus to the main gate one evening and never chewed a nail again quit cold turkey. This is no chit.

mark

 

[Doofy]

I was a fingernail chewer all my life. Got assigned to NAS Cubi Point in the Philippines in the mid 80's and knew that every thing I touched would be filthy. Road the bus to the main gate one evening and never chewed a nail again quit cold turkey. This is no chit.

mark

mjarrels,
Were you a Marine Corps Drill Instructor in San Diego in 1972? Your name brings back a lot of memories (not all bad either).

 

[mjarrels]

No, I was a Navy Chief.

mark